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Oct. 15, 1929. H. w. HIBBARD UPRIGHT BEVERAGE COOLING CABINET Filed June 1926 2 Sheets-Sheet l INVENTOR. H. h! H! 5 6 a rd A7 TORNEYS Oct. 15, 1929. H. w. HIBBARD v UPRIGHT BEVERAGE COOLING CABINET Filed June 1926 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 INVENTOR. H Mfr 2'6 6 a rd ATTORNEYS f atented Oct. 15 1929 UNITED. STATES PATENT; OFFICE'T HARRY W. I-IIBBARD, 0F LYNDHURS'I, OHIO, ASSIGNOR, BY MESNE ASSIGN MENTS, TO

HIBBARD CABINETS, INC, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO, A CORPORATION OF DELAWARE UI'RIG-HT BEVERAGE-COOLING CABINET Application filed J'une 3, 1926. Serial No. 113,410.

The present invention relates to refrigerating cabinets, and more particularly to cabinets of that type which are especially adapted iticiir use in cooling bottled beverages or the Among the objects of the present invention are to provide a-bottled beverage refrigerating cabinet which will quickly cool the beverage in such quantities as are ordinarily required by a retail dealer, and in which the bottles are placed so that they are readily accessible when it is desired to withdraw the same.

The invention further contemplates the construction of a cooling cabinet which admits of the bottles of beverage being piled horizontally and chills them from the top of the pile toward the bottom instead of fromthe bottom toward the top, thereby insuring that the uppermost bottles which are withdrawn for use will be thoroughly chilled.

While one particular embodiment of the invention is shown and described in detail for illustrative purposes, it will be understood that many modifications and changes can be made in the design, proportions and details of construction without departing from the spirit of the invention.

For a full understanding of'the invention referenceis to be had to the following dede'scription and accompanying drawings in which,

Figure l is a front elevation of a beverage cooling cabinet which is constructed in ac cordance with the invention, the doors of the compartment in which the "refrigerating machine is mounted beingopen.

Figure 2 is a vertical longitudinal sectional view through the device.

Figure 3 is a transverse sectional view taken on the line 33 of Figure 2. V

Figure 4; is a top plan view. of the device with the cover removed.

Corresponding and like parts are referred to in the following description and indicated on all of the views of the drawings by like reference characters.

Referring to the drawings, Which illustrate one of many possible embodiments of the invention, the reference character A designates the casing of the cabinet, said casing having a suitable heat insulating construction and belng' supported above a compartment B in which some conventional form of refrigerating mechanism C is mounted. The front of the compartment is shown as provided with doors l'whi'ch can be swung into an open position, as shown by Figure 1 when it is desired to obtain access to the refrigerating machinery. The cabinet is shown asmounted upon rollers 2, so that it can be easily moved from place to place. The front of the casing A is formed with an inclined portion which is provided with sliding doors 3. The top portion of the easing A is narrower than the bottom portion thereof and is closed by a removable cover 4. The cover has rabbeted edges 4 which engage acorresponding seat 5 at the top of the casing and suitable fastening members such as the screws 6 may be utilized for fastening the cover in position.

Arranged Within the narrow top portion of the cabinet is a cooling tank 7. Thiscooling tank rests upon cross bars 8 extending across the'cabinet, being secured to'the cross bars in some suitable manner as by means of the straps 9 which extend around the top and sides of the tank, the ends of the straps eX- tending through openings in the cross bars and being threaded for engagement with nuts 10. The tank may be filled with brine or any equivalent medium and circulation pipes 11 are arranged within the tank, as shown by Figure 2. The cooling tank is spaced from receiving compartments F are spaced from the end walls of the casing A, thereby roviding upright air circulation passages eading from the bottom of the casing to the top therethe end and side walls of the top portion of v doors of the other compartments.

by providing an air circulation space J extending along the bottom of the several compartments. The bottom walls 14 have a reticulated formation and may be conveniently formed of wire mesh. These bottom walls 15 are preferably removable and may have the edge portions thereof bent downwardly, as indicated at 14;, to provide side flanges for supporting the bottom walls in an elevated position above the bottom of the casing when they are arranged in position.

The sliding doors 8 are mounted in channel guides 15 which are provided at thetop and bottom of the inclined portion of the front of the casing. There is one of the doors 3 for each of the bottle receiving compartments F. As shown on the drawings there are three of the doors 3, and the two end doors would operate in one guideway, while the intermediate door would operate within another guic eway. These doors are providedwith flush handles 3 so that they can slide freely over each other, and it will be obvious that the sliding door of anyone of the compartments can be opened independently of the sliding Quick access can thus be had to any desired one of the compartments without letting warm. air into the other compartments. The bottles, a few of which are indicated at L on Figure 2, are

40, placed. in the compartments in a horizontal position being piled on top of each other in successive layers. I

In the operation of the device the contents of the tank 7 are chilled by the refrigerating 5 machine C which'may be of any conventional 'or well known type. The air at the top of the refrigerating compartment A completely surrounds the tank 7 and is in contact with the walls thereof on all sides. This air becomes 5echilled and the cold air circulates downwardly through the bottles in the bottle receiving compartments F. This cold air comes into contact with the uppermost bottles firstso that the top bottles in the various compartamentsare cooled before the bottom bottles,

this being quite a desirable feature because it is thetop bottles which are withdrawn first as thesupply of bottled beverage is drawn uponby the dealer for use. As the cold air circulates downwardly through the bottles it takes the heat from the bottles and the air becomes warmer as it circulates downwardly. Whenthe air reaches the bottom of the air circulating space J it is several degrees warm- (15 e17;thanthe air which is in contact with the cooling tank and this warm air circulates through the bottom space J to the end spaces H and rises through these end circulating spaces H until it reaches the top of the refrigerating casing and again comes in contact with the cooling tank 7. A continuous circulation of the air is thus maintained and this results in a quick and effective cooling of the bottled beverage. It has been found that where there is about three ounces of brine in the tank 7 to each ounce of liquid in the bottles a very rapid cooling of the bottles is possible. Anysize, shape or make of bottle canbe used, and the bottles are held in position within the refrigerating cabinet so that they are quickly chilled and can be readily withdrawn as they are required to meet the sales of an average retail dealer. cabinet is portable and can be readily moved from place to place and when the cabinet is made of a size to take care of about five cases of bottled goods it will have a capacity which will meet the requirements of the average small dealer.

Having thus described my invention what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is, r

1. A refrigerating cabinet including a casing having a wide base and a narrow top portion, a cooling tank arranged in the narrow top portion of the casing, transverse parti- The entire tions extending across the wide base of the casing and subdividing the same into a plurality of elongated compartments in which bottles are adapted to be placed horizontally and endwise, certain-of thepartitions coop-- crating with the upright walls of the casing to provide air circulatingv spaces leading downwardly from the cooling tank.

2. A refrigerating cabinet including a casing having, a wide base and a narrow top portion, a cooling tank arranged within the narrow top portion and spaced from the walls of the casing, a plurality of reticulated'transverse partitions dividing the wide base portionof the casing into a plurality of elongated bottle receiving compartments in which bottles are adapted to be placedhorizontally and endwise, and a reticulated bottom! for each compartment which is spaced from'the bottom of the casing, the outside transverse partitions of the end compartments being spaced from the ends of the casing to provide air circulating spaces leading downwardly from the cooling tank.

3. A refrigerating cabinet including a casing, a cooling tank at the top of the casing, aplurality of transversely disposed upright partitions arranged under the cooling. tank and subdividing thebottom of the easing into a plurality of bottle receiving compartments extending from the front toward the rear, the transverse partitions. of the end compartments being spaced from the ends of the casing to provide upright air circulating spaces,

and reticulated bottom walls for the compartments which are spaced from the bot tom of the casing to provide a substantially horizontal air circulating space.

4:. A refrigerating cabinet including a casing transverse bars extending across the upper portion of the casing, a cooling tank supported on the transverse bars in a spaced relation to the walls of the casing, and upright partitions arranged below the cooling tank in a spaced relation to the ends of the casing and cooperating therewith to provide upright air circulating spaces leading from the bottom of the casing to the top thereof.

5. A refrigerating cabinet including a casing having an open end, transverse bars extending across the upper portion of the casing, a cooling tank resting on the transverse bars and removable through the top of the casing, said cooling tank being spaced from the walls of the casing, a removable cover closing the top of the casing, and upright partitions cooperating with side walls of the casing to provide upright air circulation passages leading from the bottom of the casing to the top thereof, whereby warm air at the bottom of the casing will circulate upwardly into contact with the cooling tank.

6. A refrigerating cabinet including a casing, a cooling tank at the top of the casing, a plurality of transversely disposed upright partitions arranged under the cooling tank and subdividing the bottom of the casing into a plurality of bottle receiving compartments the casing being provided with an elongated door opening extending across the ends of the several compartments, guide ways at opposite edges of the door opening, and sliding doors mounted within the guide-ways, a door lated bottoms for the various compartments which are supported removably in a spaced relation to the bottom of the casing, the casing being provided with a door opening for each compartment and extending across the ends thereof, and an independent door for each compartment.

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HARRY W. HIBBARD.

extending from the front toward the rear,

being provided for each compartment and the doors being movable into and out of operative position independently of each other.

7 A refrigerating cabinet including a casing having a wide base and a narrow top portion the front of the casing having an inclined portion leading from the lower part of the casing to the narrow upper part there of, a cooling tank mounted in the narrow upper portion of the casing, transversely disposed upright partitions dividing the lower part of the casing into a plurality of compartments extending from the front toward the rear, upper and lower guide-ways at the top and bottom of the inclined portion of the casing, said guide-ways extending across the ends of all of the compartments, and a series of inclined sliding doors mounted upon the before mentioned guide-ways, a door being provided for each compartment and the doors being movable into and out of operative position independently of each other.

8. A refrigerating cabinet including a casing a horizontally disposed cooling tank extending across the top of the casing and sup- 

